Every explanation is a simplification. There are many ways to understand how containers work, but most useful explanations are actually simplifications. Many people have settled on explaining containers by calling them ‘light-weight VMs’ and they are light-weight because they ‘share … Read more
The world of magic had Houdini, who pioneered tricks that are still performed today. And data compression has Jacob Ziv. In 1977, Ziv, working with Abraham Lempel, published the equivalent of Houdini on Magic: a paper in the IEEE Transactions … Read more
I’ve been doing this “reliability” stuff for a little while now (~5 years), at companies ranging from about 20 developers to over 2,000. I’ve always cared primarily about the software elements I describe as living “outside” the application – like, … Read more
Extracting value from graph data seems like so much more hassle than it needs to be. Datasets are often useful only when big enough, and at that point you need to scale up your analytics pipeline. More often than not, … Read more
An overview of static webpage deployment What is a static webpage? Modern webpages are (primarily) composed of three types of files: HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Basically, HTML specifies the content, CSS defines the style, and JavaScript allows dynamic behaviour. Webpages … Read more
Building something from scratch is rarely a good idea. Especially in the rich world of web technologies full of solutions for problems we didn’t even know existed. In our first iteration of Memgraph Lab, we did just that – we … Read more
The Dirty Work Theory: The lamentable work that many people avoid are great places to look for high impact, low hanging fruit. Whenever people ask me for advice on career growth, I share what has worked reasonably well for me: … Read more
I spent the last three weeks in Seoul, partly visiting family I hadn’t seen in years and partly taking a vacation from my usual work in my usual city in my usual context of life. While I haven’t been able … Read more
Have you ever wondered what it takes to build your own web framework that also deploys to edge and serverless infrastructure? What features does a modern framework need to support, and how can we ensure that these features allow us … Read more
But Why? I’ve been trying to learn Golang lately. Previously, I wrote an article where I built an app for storing contacts that ran in the terminal using the tview package. This was a great first project to get me … Read more